Tyne Cot Cemetery

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Tyne Cot Cemetery is the resting place of 11,908 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces, the largest number of burials of any Commonwealth cemetery of either world war.

It is located near Ypres in Belgium.

The dates of death of the soldiers buried at Tyne Cot cover four years, from October 1914 to September 1918. On the wall at the back of the cemetery are the names of 34,927 soldiers who have no known grave and died from August 1917 to the end of the war - a continuation of the names inscribed on the Menin Gate Memorial.nl:Tyne Cot